U.S. Philips Corporation

Pieter Struik

Pieter Van Der Wolf

The processing circuit contains a cache management unit which keeps information about a stream of addresses among addresses accessed by the processor. The cache management unit updates a current address for the stream in response to progress of execution of the program. The cache management unit is make selected storage locations in the cache memory available for reuse, a storage location in the cache memory which is in use for the data corresponding to the particular address being made available for reuse dependent on a position of the particular address relative to the current address.

Data processing circuit with cache memory and cache management unit for arranging selected storage location in the cache memory for reuse dependent on a position of particular address relative to current address

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Pieter Struik